Hi, I've just posted an improved version of my random patch onto bug 163196:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=122538 Unlike the previous version I believe the maths actually now work well to summarise: 1) It adds a random pane on the preferences dialog 2) This allows you to select the behaviour when just 'shuffle' is selected - either random or shuffle (for those who don't like the odd UI trick of selection based on shuffle+repeat) 3) It combines the random-by-age, by-rating, by-age-and-rating all into one chunk of code and selects the behaviour by a series of sliders - age bias and rating bias. 4) A further bias is used for 'very recent' plays - and you can define that; so for example you can set it up for plays within the last 2 days are heavily penalised. The only thing I think could improve is how to set the initial values of the sliders - I believe I have them in the schema - can anyone suggest how to improve that? I find with the age-bias set to about 25% of the way it works well; if it's on max then you'll get little other than your very oldest tracks (or ones never played) - I've tried this out and it seems to work. The patch is against the SVN version of 0.11.6 in Ubuntu Intrepid; but should go on pretty easily. Any chance of this making it to a release? All comments welcome. Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
